Linda Hazzard, nicknamed the "Starvation Doctor" and self-proclaimed fasting "doctor"; used extreme starvation and sick torture methods to kill her often wealthy patients. Listen as we discuss how the quack and swindler founded her terrible "Health Retreat" to soon become convicted for manslaughter.

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Episode sources:

Olsen, G. (2012). Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice. Constable & Robinson Ltd.

Natalia. (2019, September 21). “Linda Hazzard, "The Starvation Doctor". Talk Murder With Me. https://www.talkmurderwithme.com/blog/2019/9/21/linda-hazzard

Lovejoy, B. (2014) “The Doctor Who Starved Her Patients to Death”. Smithsonian Mag https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/doctor-who-starved-her-patients-death-180953158/